The best novelist in the country might be bad at organizing and writing a resume.
James Lee Burke, acclaimed by critics as «America's
best novelist,» «the Graham Greene of the bayou,» and «a poet of the mystery novel,» returns with his popular character, Dave Robicheaux, in a novel rich with atmosphere, ripe with menace, and filled with the kind of crackling dialogue that has made Burke a consistent New York Times best - selling author.
Some very
good novelists are explainers.
This suggests that he finds Joyce neither
a good novelist nor a good Catholic.
Ellison became one of
our best novelists, and really accomplished much of what Murray sketches.
One of my friends is
a good novelist and publishes her own books occasionally.
The Last Report reaffirms Erdrich's status as one of America's
best novelists.
The best novelists and short story writers understand people too, so read the THE 50 BEST SHORT STORIES OF ALL TIME.
«The greatest mystery of all is the human heart, and that is the mystery with which
all good novelists are concerned.»
The Cloud Sketcher is a transforming journey into the heart of beauty and the peril of love, a romantic, lyrical epic that resurrects history with such authenticity and drama as to place Richard Rayner in the company of our very
best novelists.
«Travel does what
good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear.
In Grantland, Brian Phillips wrote: «Probably no one alive is
a better novelist than Jonathan Franzen, and this is frustrating because his novels are awful, excellent but awful, books you read quickly and remember ponderously, books of exhaustive craft and yet a weird, spiraling cluelessness about the data they exhaustively collate.»
Not exact matches
For instance,
best - selling
novelist Miranda Beverly - Whittemore confesses to being «a bed - lingerer» in Women's Health.
Poet and
Novelist Helen Dunmore declared long walks as the
best means for crystalizing ideas and for writing fiction.
Since then, Vanderbilt's high - ranking undergraduate program has produced hundreds of notable alumni, including two NASA astronauts,
best - selling
novelist James Patterson, and Ann Moore, the first female CEO of Time Inc..
Why she's awesome: Bezos is a
best - selling
novelist who won the National Book Award for «The Testing of Luther Albright.»
Some of its
best - known alumni include President Woodrow Wilson, billionaire Michael Bloomberg,
novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and film director Wes Craven.
Another finally, you can find on THE WAYFARING a post on and a link to one of the
best articles ever written on MARILYNNE ROBINSON (another
novelist that we pomocons love, even though she thinks of herself as anti-con).
There's a
good beginning to developing the
novelist Percy's singular views of PLACE and PLACEMENT.
illiams the
novelist is probably the Williams who is
best remembered today.
From the
novelist as
well as from the stories in Scripture the theologian should take courage to concentrate on the experience of coming to belief, not on the «beliefs» themselves (the sedimentation of experiences of coming to belief).
But one
good effect has been the way readers are compelled to think again about the
novelist's life.
At this point we do tend to draw on the psychologist to make sense of what
novelist Mary McCarthy observed: that religion makes
good people
good and bad people bad.
One of the last
well - known statements of the classical position was made by the Anglican scholar Canon Henry Liddon (1829 - 90) in his 1866 Bampton Lectures on The Divinity of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ The lectures were in part a response to David Strauss's The Life of Jesus, of which the
novelist George Eliot (1819 - 90) was a translator.
I mention Buck in connection with another dog, a Golden Retriever named Trixie, who belonged to Dean Koontz the
novelist whose selcouth stories habitually top the NYT
Best - seller list.
Recently, three outstanding crime
novelists have turned directly to the church for inspiration, presenting amateur detectives who are, in vocation as
well as in spirit, priests.
She has also been identified, perhaps more by modern
novelists and screenwriters than by the ancients, as the woman at the
well (John 4:4.29).
Thirty years later — after Mary Ann Evans had come to London and become Marian Evans, then (in her mind, though not in English law, since the man with whom she lived was married to another) Marian Lewes, and ultimately the great and famous
novelist George Eliot» she wrote in very similar terms to Harriet Beecher Stowe: for the
good of humankind, orthodox Christianity must be replaced by an ethical religion that would instill in us «a more deeply awing sense of responsibility to man, springing from sympathy with the difficulty of the human lot.»
If the question were expanded to include
novelists — the most sociological of major art forms — a
well - informed literary critic might offer a few names such as Ron Hansen or Alice McDermott, authors whose subject matter is often overtly Catholic.
Not the familiar questions of generations of theological classrooms, but concrete questions posed by the lives we know, and honed into graphic forms by the
best of our
novelists, film - makers, and social commentators.
But America is
good, it seems, in part because it can find places for Southerners, especially Southern Stoics (think the
novelist Tom Wolfe, Atticus Finch, Admiral Stockdale, Navy SEALS, and the proud men of Morehouse), Catholics (as, to begin with, the
best organized in countercultural thought and action of our large institutional religions), and Heideggerians (who are right, after all, about the American propensity for inauthentically deferring to the «they» of public opinion and scientific expertise).
The
best American Thomist, the philosopher - physician -
novelist Walker Percy, agrees that the Americans, who really are Cartesians who've never read a word of Descartes, need Pascal to understand that their legendary pursuit of happiness is mostly a diversion about what they really can't help but know about themselves.
The
novelist Richard Ford's first two tips for writing: «(1) Marry somebody you love and who thinks you being a writer's a
good idea; (2) Don't have children.»
The
novelist Flannery O'Connor's Catholic faith nourished her art is amply evidenced in her letters as
well as in her fiction.
Drawing on
novelists, poets, as
well as Scripture, Trotter leads us through a perilous issue with a result that opens up new options for religious expressions, as
well as warnings about traditional religious language.
If you want to base your life on a
novelist's work, you'd be
better off with Joe Haldeman than Ayn Rand.
Violence has a certain charm for
novelists, and gangsters who are full of exuberance and insolence make
better copy than accountants.
After all, the two
novelists are, as George Steiner so
well argued in his Tolstoy or Dostoevsky, very different in their intentions, techniques, and (above all) artistic temperaments.
The moment he begins to stretch the facts to prove a point or to tell a
good story from his imagination, at that moment he becomes a propagandist or perhaps a historical
novelist, but he ceases to be a true historian.
The connection between freedom and time (and between them and selfhood or personal identity) appears clearly in Sartre's insistence that the
good novel present a self shaping an open future, not a puppet ruled by the past whose end is contained in his beginning: «But in order for the duration of my impatience and ignorance to be caught and then moulded and finally presented to me as the flesh of these creatures of invention, the
novelist must know how to draw it into the trap, how to hollow out in his book, by means of signs at his disposal, a time resembling my own, one in which the future does not exist.
• The
novelist Richard Ford's first two tips for writing: «1) Marry somebody you love and who thinks you being a writer's a
good idea; 2) Don't have children.»
When a British magazine recently listed what its editors considered the
best young American
novelists, it noted that writers were turning back to childhood, growing up and family relationships as subject matter — what some grumbling critics called «the Norman Rockwellization of the novel.»
Many
novelists give short shrift to the small
good things of life.
He is also a powerful
novelist whose works of historical fiction» The First Circle, August 1914, Cancer Ward, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich» depict the enduring struggles between
good and evil in the human heart.
I've been invited to co-author a story with one of the
best selling
novelists ever!
Andrew Klavan is a
novelist and the author of The Great
Good Thing: A Secular Jew Comes to Faith in Christ.
This continual spiritual backdrop to our «ordinary» lives is something the Canadian writer and
novelist Michael D O'Brien grasps
well.
By Russ Gager alinas, Calif. — the salad bowl of the United States made famous by
novelist John Steinbeck in «East of Eden» — used to be as overflowing with food brokers as a
well - tossed Caesar salad.
When I spoke with transhumanist
novelist Zoltan Istvan about what transhumanists imagine the future will be like when humans evolve to their
best self, he said that besides living forever, humans will be bodiless — just brilliant, self - actualized, formless consciousness.
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